Have fun. Oh, I also am going to be on vacation from this Friday through Sunday. I might be able to post a short post on my phone but I won't be able to manipulate the map without a computer.
Janna advances forward and attacks Orange and Yellow!
After some disappointing rolls with her Amped Unleashed spells, that feels pretty damn good! And then another natural twenty on this turn. My cup runneth over.
Enjoy the trips folks!
Level 15
8th-rank spells
Learning: Dragon Form (8th) and Raise Dead (8th) (as signature spell)
Replacing: Raise Dead (7th) with Execute
Attribute boosts
+2 to Dex, Con, Wis, and +1 to Cha
General feat
Scare to Death
Master spellcaster
Your proficiency ranks for spell attack modifiers and spell DCs increase to master.
Skill increase
Intimidate to Legendary
Character sheet updated.
Question: Yujin's bloodline was always a Sovereign Dragon, but Sovereign Dragon is legacy. I had put the type as Empyrial. But now looking at Dragon Form, it looks closer to Omen. Which type should I use?
I'll work on my post later. It got really late while working on leveling up.
I'd stand by that sovereign dragon is an occult dragon with a mental breath, so yeah, using omen dragon as a close approximation would work. Plus pretty much the only part of all that that we used was the +1 to initiative, which is whatever (COMPLETELY didn't notice that you should've gotten a +1 to AC and saves vs. divine)
Suryo Level 15
Ability Increases CON, INT, WIS, CHA
(not DEX because we won't reach a level to complete the partial boost)
Class features Double debilitation, Greater Weapon Specialization
Skill increase Stealth to Legendary
Skill feat Legendary Sneak
General Feat Canny Accumen (Fortitude)
Language (from INT increase) Draconic
Skill (from INT increase) Crafting
Level up!
Hit Points
+11
+15 from Con increase (see below)
Ability Score Increases
Strength to +5
Dexterity to +4
Constitution to +4
Wisdom to +1
General Feat
(Skill) Quiet Allies
Greater Weapon Specialization
Juggernaut
After combating the herald of Gorum, Ahoran's body has become accustomed to physical hardship and resistant to a wide range of ailments. His proficiency rank for Fortitude saves increases to master. When he rolls a success on a Fortitude save, he gets a critical success instead.
Skill Increase
Achaekek Lore upgrades to Legendary proficiency (Additional Lore)
Intimidate upgrades to Legendary proficiency
Esoteric Lore upgrades to Legendary proficiency (Class Feature)
Third Implement
Mirror
A bit late so I'll update the sheet and post later.
Also, long overdue pickup for Quiet Allies. I think this campaign will benefit from that more than most.
I'm working on figuring out the modified stats for Dragon Form.
It says, "AC = 21 + level". Is my AC just 36? Or do I still add Dexterity modifiers and/or proficiency modifiers to that?
And for attack, is says "attack modifier of +28. you are trained with them." Does the +28 already include the +2 trained bonus? And do I add my Str bonus?
Edit: I think I figured it out. I don't add anything to the listed numbers.
I added a spoiler at the bottom of my character sheet for Dragon Form for reference.
Level 15
8th-rank spells
Hidden Mind is Uncommon, is it OK to take that? It's a flavour pick more than anything else because of course an assassin would take that. If not I'll think of something else
Conscious mind gives Quandry (i.e Maze. Nice)
Attribute boosts
+CON +DEX +WIS +CHA. Skipping INT due to slight metagaming of knowing we're not going to make 20.
Skill increase
Acrobatics to Legendary from Acrobat Dedication
Achaekek Lore to Legendary of Additional Lore
Stealth to Legendary from skill increase. I really considered Occultism to get the Recall the Teachings bonus up to +4, but the Sneak-whenever-you-like of Legendary Sneak seems very powerful.
General feat
Legendary Sneak
Master spellcaster
Your proficiency ranks for spell attack modifiers and spell DCs increase to master. (woohoo)
RE: Faking our deaths, I'd like to use Rewrite Memory to perhaps seed a few "witnesses" to our corpses. Could that work for an Occultism roll, handwaving the actual approach and such? And is this roll while we're at level 15?
RE: Faking our deaths, I'd like to use Rewrite Memory to perhaps seed a few "witnesses" to our corpses. Could that work for an Occultism roll, handwaving the actual approach and such? And is this roll while we're at level 15?
If that’s not an appropriate use for using Occultism then I don’t know what is!
And the rolls for Faking your Deaths are made at level 14.
And Re: hidden mind: I’ll allow it. It only gets REALLY problematic when everyone has it on them, which won’t be much of a problem with Janna’s limited slots.
And the rolls for Faking your Deaths are made at level 14.
Then my result is 2 less than posted. I did it as 15.
Ajoran is only trained in Deception, but he does have Assurance. He's very used to having to hide his appearance wherever he goes.
He also has access to any two skills at Master rank on demand thanks to his tome. I'm open to suggestions based on the party's needs.
Transport-wise Janna can do 3 rank 7 Teleports per day (both rank 7 slots and then using her rank 8 as a rank 7 (without heightneing)).
It's best if she's familiar with the location, so sticking to major locations where we can assume she's murdered someone before, we could do something like:
Hop 1: Crownhold -> Magnimar ~ 900 miles
Hop 2: Magnimar -> Egorian ~820 miles
Hop 3: Egorian -> Mediogalti Island ~ 1000 miles
We could even in a stop at Azir between Egorian and Mediogalti island to avoid having to really max out the distances. With coastal locations there might be a risk of appearing in the water I suppose, but perhaps we can aim inland a bit, visualising the city on the horizon or what-have-you
Stopping at a metropolis like Egorian would have the advantage of letting us do some shopping for Intrigue related stuff if we needed to; I was going to suggest Greater Masquerade Scarves but since Suryo is a Master of Deception he could just disguise us instead. If we do four Teleports staying in Egorian for a day to do shopping (and avoiding the devil worshippers) would work out.
If we did that how much gold could we get liquidating the stolen stuff? I've marked everything in the Inventory Sheet that I think we should keep as being carried by Janna (not necessarily to be used by Janna, e.g someone should take the Greater Resilient Rune), if folks did the same we could figure out how much we're dealing with, and then we can think about what we'd like to buy if we agree to stop for some shopping. What level is Egorian? If we needed to we could probably get to Absalom with another day or two of hops.
Etching runes requires Magical Crafting IIRC so we'd need to hire someone to do that (e.g in Egorian) if we wanted to? How much time does that take?
So, what’s the plan? How are you getting to Ilizmagorti? How are you entering the city? What’s the plan after that?
I think once we teleport close to Ilizmagorti, it would be acceptable to pay to take a ship to the island. Maybe we could even gather some information about the current state of the city while onboard.
In the city, Yujin can utilize her background as a servant in Ilizmagorti and Labor Lore to locate good haunts where commoners gather to pry information from them. Commoners aren't likely to be privy to the Vernai's secrets but I suspect we are going to need to work from the bottom up to get the information we need.
Yujin does not have Diplomacy but she can try to Intimidate information out of people.
Oh shoot! I forgot about Talaro’s equipment!
It's definitely important that we unload the loot *before* we get back to Mediogalti island.
Etching runes requires Magical Crafting IIRC so we'd need to hire someone to do that (e.g in Egorian) if we wanted to? How much time does that take?
I'd say it'd be part of the same day of downtime used to buy/sell stuff.
claiming
- storm flash (since Suryo was already using it)
- wounding rune (there are two more unclaimed)
- greater resilient rune (I see one more unclaimed)
and stopping there for now to see what others claim.
Yujin would like to claim the Assassin's Skin. And pay to move her Greater Invisibility rune onto it.
I'm okay selling the rest of whatever else goes unclaimed.
Other things that we *should* claim and utilize somehow before selling off the rest:
* Ready rune (2)
* Energy-resistant (cold) rune
* Returning rune
* Animated rune (an independently stabbing storm flash?!)
* Wounding Rune (2)
* Greater Frost Rune
* Extending Rune
* Greater mask of the mantis (Suryo could use this unless someone else wants it)
Janna is carrying these which should also be utilized:
* Greater resilient rune
* Greater Energy-Resistant (Cold) Rune
Yujin already has a Greater Mask of the Mantis.
All the runes you listed are appealing but I don't think Yujin would utilize any effectively. If we want to hang onto any to decide whether to keep or sell until later, that's fine with me too.
Yujin would like to claim the Assassin's Skin. And pay to move her Greater Invisibility rune onto it.
* Animated rune (an independently stabbing storm flash?!)
You cannot put property runes onto specific magic armor (that have names like assassin's skin), only generic magic armor.
Oh, then never mind. Pass on it.
I'm not sure about the utility of the Ready rune to be honest, how often do you find yourself putting on armour? That said it's pretty cheap so it doesn't make much difference.
The Extending rune seems very useful but it's a rare item whose description I find totally immersion breaking. I have no problem imagining all sorts of fantastical magic, but I really struggle to envision stretching a weapon by 60 feet and doing anything with it other than falling over (or starring in a bugs bunny cartoon). Maybe if someone takes that we can flavour it as making a temporary portal which can be struck through?
The one's I'd marked as Janna were just ones I didn't want us to sell, not things she actually wanted. I redirected the Greater Frost to Ajoran as Janna is unlikely to ever use her saber, but nevertheless I grabbed +2 greater striking wounding for it as it's probably her religious duty to keep it tip-top. Now I'm thinking about it Animated might make sense for her weapon since she's unlikely to use it in combat (and you can't put it on Storm-flash Suryo, specific magic weapons can't get extra property runes in the same way armour can't)
It looks like we have two Greater Resilient Runes. In character Janna would argue that she should have one (and then sulk if she didn't get her way), but personally I think Yujin should have it so I've assigned it to her.
There are 8 Energy Resistant Cold runes and 1 Greater version, if folks have property slots remaining I recommend grabbing one of those. Janna has currently grabbed the greater version as she saw it first :p She has grabbed a lot of stuff though so I'm happy to switch with someone!
I also really like the look of the Assassin's skin, but in Janna's case having a +5 DEX makes it worse than Explorer's Clothing so she'll pass too
Finally I was looking how much it would cost to upgrade Janna's Greater Staff of the Unblinking Eye and I noticed it was Uncommon and I never asked about it, so er, sorry! Is it OK to keep that?
Yes, okay, Yujin could use the greater resilient rune. She'd also need to take the +2 armor potency rune to go with it. I'll take the cost of transferring them out of whatever we earn.
In that case, a +1 armor potency and a resilient rune can be sold (or used to pay for some of the transfer cost).
I'm not sure about the utility of the Ready rune to be honest, how often do you find yourself putting on armour? That said it's pretty cheap so it doesn't make much difference.
Yup, I think we assign everything that could possibly be useful, use up our equipment rune slots, worst case we switch them out later.
Everything else you stated makes sense to me, though I think extending and returning are still worth assigning to someone.
(oh wow, I totally missed the quantity 8 on some of those)
Yujin would like to claim the Assassin's Skin. And pay to move her Greater Invisibility rune onto it.* Animated rune (an independently stabbing storm flash?!)You cannot put property runes onto specific magic armor (that have names like assassin's skin), only generic magic armor.
Same with magic weapons.
Suryo's weapons are maxed out now (his sawtooth sabre has keen and wounding).
I think Ajoran could use the ready rune on the mantis shell armor to be able to quickly be ready when being woken up to a surprise encounter (I think those with explorer's clothing can comfortably sleep in it).
I also really like the look of the Assassin's skin, but in Janna's case having a +5 DEX humble brag makes it worse than Explorer's Clothing so she'll pass too
Actually, at +5 Dex, the vast majority of non-heavy armor functions exactly the same (barring traits, obviously), where the dex cap and the item bonus (minus potency runes) add up to +5. (For heavy armor it’s +6)
Finally I was looking how much it would cost to upgrade Janna's Greater Staff of the Unblinking Eye and I noticed it was Uncommon and I never asked about it, so er, sorry! Is it OK to keep that?
Also, at this point, just keep the staff. Nothing on there is really gamebreaking in my opinion.
Actually, at +5 Dex, the heavy armor functions exactly the same (barring traits, obviously), where the dex cap and the item bonus (minus potency runes) add up to +5. (For heavy armor it’s +6)Of course, how silly of me. I will take the armour then if that's ok, it's deliciously evil and I expect to see lots of bleed coming up. That means the greater frost rune is free now (though I think she will have to take the greater resilient, unless we can swap them?)
I'm certainly interested in the ready rune. This seems like one of the more likely kinds of campaigns where being ambushed in your sleep is a possibility. Plus, it means Ajoran can carry his armor in a hidden bundle and suit up in the field. Considering Ajoran ins in melee all the time, I would also like to claim a Wounding rune.
I've got room for a frost resist rune on the armor but I'm not sure how much that will be a factor in the future.